《离骚》是战国时期楚国诗人屈原的收录于《楚辞》中的著名作品，其准确写作年份迄无定论。中国最长的抒情诗.。

全诗共375句，2490字，诉说屈原的政治理想，批评群小的诽谤打击与楚王的妄信谗言，理想虽遭破坏，但自己决不妥协。又设想上天下地，上叩帝阍，但天门不开，屈原陈志无路，于是有去国远逝之想，又望见自己的故乡，最后决定以身殉国。

前半部敍述作者的身世、修养和抱负，追忆辅佐楚怀王时种种遭遇，借此表明不同流合污，中段总结历上各国兴衰旳经验，认为政治应举贤授能，最后诉说自己壮志未酬，求卜问卦以择去路，最后以死明志。

"Li Sao" (Chinese:離騷; literally: "Encountering Sorrow"") is a Chinese poem dating from the Warring States period of ancient China. The early poetic tradition of China survives mainly through two anthologies, one being the Chuci, the other being the formally distinct Classic of Poetry (or Shijing). The poem "Li Sao" is the lead poem and the main inspiration for the Chuci collection. This famous piece was written by the person generally known as Qu Yuan, an aristocrat of the Kingdom of Chu. In his signature poem "Li Sao", Qu Yuan manifests himself in a poetic character, which is a major landmark in the tradition of Classical Chinese poetry, contrasting with the anonymous poetic voices encountered in the Shijing and the other early poems which exist as preserved in the form of incidental incorporations into various documents of ancient miscellany. The rest of the Chuci anthology is centered on the "Li Sao", the purported biography of its author Qu Yuan, and often its innovative epic poetic lines. In the "Li Sao", the poet despairs that he has been plotted against by evil factions at court with his resulting rejection by his lord and then recounts a series of shamanistic spirit journeys to various mythological realms, engaging or attempting to engage with a variety of divine or spiritual beings, with the theme of the righteous minister unfairly rejected sometimes becoming exaggerated in the long history of later literary criticism and allegorical interpretation. Dating from the time of King Huai of Chu, in the late third century BCE, the poem "Li Sao" is a remarkable example of Chinese poetry.